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With all due respect, I think you’re being a little harsh on Neuschwanstein!

It was a real palace built for a real king to use. Admittedly he died before it was completed, so it never actually got used, but it’s not like the Disneyland castle which is just a fiberglass facade.

It looks amazing, both inside and out, and is the closest thing to a real life fairytale castle that exists - because, as you said, that’s specifically the look the king wanted. It wasn’t built as a cynical tourist trap, it was built as a dream palace for a king.

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A_norny_mousse@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Nobody said Disneyland, or fiberglass, or tourist trap, except you.

is the closest thing to a real life fairytale castle that exists - because, as you said, that’s specifically the look the king wanted

How wrong you are. Real fairytales are folklore, developed over centuries. Neuschwanstein isn’t. It is to real castles what HC Andersen’s tales are to real folktales.

Es wurde als romantisches Ideal einer Ritterburg entworfen. Anders als „echte“ Burgen, deren Gebäudebestände meist das Ergebnis mehrerer Bautätigkeiten sind, wurde Neuschwanstein als gewollt asymmetrischer Bau in einem Zug geplant und in Abschnitten errichtet. Für eine Burg typische Merkmale wurden zitiert; echte Verteidigungsanlagen – das wichtigste Merkmal eines mittelalterlichen Adelssitzes – wurden nicht gebaut.

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- Apepollo11@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Sorry if you felt I was trying to put words in your mouth, that wasn’t what I meant. I mentioned Disneyland etc by way of contrast - to illustrate Neuschwanstein was built as real palace. It’s not very old compared to others, but it’s still real.
  
  To provide some context, I’m British and as I’m sure you’ll know, there are castles, palaces and fortifications in abundance here. But despite that, we have nothing even nearly as pretty as Neuschwanstein.
  
  You said it sucks and it doesn’t have much history. I think that, even despite the fact that it’s not very old, it’s beautiful in a way that very few other places are and well worth visiting.
  
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